Perpendicular switching of a single ferromagnetic layer induced by in-plane current injection

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7359, 2011, Pages 189-193

  Miron, Ioan Mihai ^a   Garello, Kevin ^a   Gaudin, Gilles ^b   Zermatten, Pierre Jean ^b   Costache, Marius V ^a   Auffret, Stéphane ^b   Bandiera, Sébastien ^b   Rodmacq, Bernard ^b   Schuhl, Alain ^b   Gambardella, Pietro ^a,c,d  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b UMR 8191   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; COBALT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; PLATINUM;

ANISOTROPY; LETTER; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 80051689162     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10309     Document Type: Letter

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